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horn dipper. The rounded gap in the brim opposite the handle is an 
accidental break. Another, No. 89830 [1259], from Sidaru, is a long 
trough-like cup, with rounded ends and ashort flat handle at one end, 
made of a short transverse section of a rather small tusk, keeping the 
natural roundness of the tusk, but cut off flat on top and excavated. A 
wooden peg, like those in the horn dippers, is insertea in the end of 
the handle. This cup is especially interesting from its resemblance to 
the one obtained by Beechey (Voyage, Pl. 1, Fig. 4) at Eschscholtz 
Fig, 40,—Dipper of fossil ivory. 
Bay, from which it differs only in being about 2 inches shorter and 
deeper in proportion. Thomas Simpson speaks of obtaining an ivory 
cup from some Point Barrow natives at Dease Inlet exactly like the one 
figured by Beechey, but with the handle broken off.! Fig. 41, No. 89833 
(933], from Nuwittk, has a large bowl, nearly cireular, with a broad, 
straight handle and a broad hook. The part of the bowl to which the 
handle is attached, a semicircular piece 3 inches long and 1? wide, has 
been split out with the grain of the tusk, and mended with three 
stitches, in this case of sinew, in the usual manner. There was an old 
gap in the brim opposite to the handle, and the edges of it have been 
Fia. 41.—Dipper of fossil ivory. 
freshly and roughly whittled down. The ornamentation of the outside 
and handle, consisting of narrow incised lines and small circles, each 
with a dot in the center, is well shown in the figure. These engray- 
ings were originally colored with red ocher, but are now filled with 
dirt and are nearly effaced by wear on the handle. This dipper is not 
of such fine quality of ivory as the other two. It is not unlikely that 
all these vessels were made by the natives around Kotzebue Sound, 
where ivory is plenty, and where Beechey, as quoted above, found one 
so like one of ours. We were informed by the owner that No. 56535 
[371] was obtained from the Nunatanimiun. 
1 Narrative, p. 148. 
